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Data Management Console: Ability to upload own Driver / Wrapper and also specify the class of the driver during the definition of connection to a Db2 database

When a connection to a Db2 database is defined in the Data Management Console, the today it’s predefined driver with server, port, database and enabling of SSL. The customer would prefer to have their own authentication to have the ability to uplo...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Selective decompression of zipped filed

Currently when decompressing/unzipping the zip files in Drive explorer it is not possible to select files to unzip: the whole archive is decompressed. It would be useful to have the option of unzipping a selection of files from the archive.
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Management Console: Configure the Web Access with SSO or OAUTH2

Security policies of customers require SSO or OAUTH2 support instead of just user/password for authentication at Data Management Console (DMC).
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Submitted

Enhanced Instrumentation for workfiles

A possibility through IFI and/or a new command -DIS WORKFILES to get an “asis” use list of all work pools (Sort , DGTT, Work etc.) This data is crucial for tuning the number, size and type of the work spaces that we all have. The output should be ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Hover Text on Dashboard

Dashboard needs to be clean and have short titles due to real estate being valuable on the page. If the hover text function could have a full title and definition of terms for specific visualizations / metrics then we can keep the clean look and f...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

support to write object storage (S3 and azure) in open parquet format

OP Financial Group Data Platforms: We need CDC to write Parquet files directly (without additional/third party components) for replicating data to Cloud object storage (AWS S3 and Azure). The data will be used for analytics and data science tasks,...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Planned for future release

Allow Time Zone specification on Watson Pipeline schedules

When the time changes, our schedules run an hour later. We need to be able to define a time zone to use on schedules so this doesn't happen. This causes production scheduling issues.
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Submitted

Implementation SPSS Modeler's new visualization feature "View Data" as a node.

SPSS Modeler stores the various operations in a stream, making it very easy to run the same operation over and over, or to run the same operation on different data. Because View Data is not implemented as a node, the configuration is not stored in...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Reorg Utility should leave objects in Status UTUT when victim of a Timeout of DBD01

We have the problem, that every now and then a reorg abends because of a timeout of DBD01 in the switch-phase. The reorged object remains in status UTUT and cannot be accessed by anyone, until the utility is terminated via command.After a long tim...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

In SQL replication, do not re-execute signals that have already been executed.

In SQL replication, as in Q Capture, add a reprocess_signals to the parameters of the capture and set the default to N. Do not re-execute a signal that has already been executed if the minimum LSN is less than the last signal LSN at the start of t...